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One SVT-38 rifle, one SVT-40 rifle and one SKT-40 carbine are in the collection of Tula State Arms Museum in Tula Kremlin [42] Three SVT-40 rifles and one SKT-40 carbine are on display at the J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma; One SVT-40 is on display at the Minnesota Military Museum at Fort Ripley Little Falls, Minnesota
An earlier semi-automatic rifle, the AVS-36, was hindered by official insistence on using the powerful 7.62×54mmR, which was at that point standard amongst Russian rifles. Unfortunately, as had been demonstrated with the Fedor Tokarev's SVT-40, the rim of the 7.62×54mmR was detrimental to the rapid, reliable function of a semi-automatic rifle.
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×54mmR cartridge. The cartridge was originally developed for the Mosin–Nagant rifle and introduced in 1891 by the Russian Empire . It was the service cartridge of the late Tsarist era and throughout the Soviet period to the present-day Russia and other countries as well.
JS 7.62; Winchester 1895 (7.62x54R ver) M91; PSL sniper rifle; Chukavin sniper rifle; SVT-38 and SVT-40; SV-98 (Snaiperskaya Vintovka Model 1998) Alejandro Sniper Rifle; Dragunov SVU (1991 redesign of the Dragunov sniper rifle) Vepr sporting rifle; MTs-13, 300m sporting rifle; AVL, Service rifle lightweight, based on Los; AV, Mosin based ...
Bolt-action rifle: 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: 5-round internal magazine. Tokarev SVT-38: Semi-automatic rifle: 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: 10-round magazine. Tokarev SVT-40: Semi-automatic rifle / Sniper rifle (with 3.5× PU scope attached) 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: 10-round magazine. Most widely used semi-automatic rifle by the Red Army. Fedorov ...
The three most common sniper rifles employed by the Soviet Union were the Mosin–Nagant, the Tokarev SVT-40, and later in 1963, the SVD, the first purpose built designated marksmen's rifle. The sniper version of the Mosin–Nagant rifle was used before, during, and after World War II.
During the early to mid-Soviet era, Tula Arms Plant produced a variety military rifles, including the Mosin–Nagant, SVT-40, SKS, and AKM. It also produced the Nagant M1895 revolver . From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the factory produced the AK-74 , [ 7 ] and went on to manufacture the VSS Vintorez , AS Val , OTs-14 Groza , and TOZ ...
Outside the former Soviet Union he is best known as the designer of the Maxim–Tokarev light machine gun, the Tokarev TT-30 and TT-33 self-loading pistol, and the Tokarev SVT-38 and SVT-40 self-loading rifle, both of which were produced in large numbers during fighting on the Eastern Front of World War II.